India's Self-sufficiency In Pulses
Centre continues to monitor tur, urad dal stocks; team to visit states
The Union Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry on Monday asserted that it will continue to monitor domestic stocks of tur and urad dals, and take measures to ensure that traders disclose their inventories properly. According to an official statement, senior officers from the Department of Consumer Affairs visited 10 various locations across four states to interact and observe the stock disclosure status of tur and urad during the past few days. Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh took an internal meeting with these officers who visited major pulses markets and interacted with various market players. During the last week, a meeting with the All India Dal Mills Association in Indore was held on April 15. That apart, the department deputed 12 senior officers to visit various places in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu to take stock of ground reality. "The interactions with ground-level market players and State officials revealed that while the number of ...
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